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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 17-3-85: Fiscal year-end disposition of unexpended appropriations for payment of private appointed counsel for counties without public defender corporations.

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  1. Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
  2. CHAPTER 3 Defense of Indigents
  3. ARTICLE 1 General Provisions

At the end of each fiscal year all funds appropriated for counties without public defender corporations which have not been exhausted shall be combined into one fund and any and all claims of private appointed counsel in other counties remaining unpaid by virtue of the exhaustion of appropriated funds in those respective counties shall be paid on a pro rata basis until such fund is exhausted or until all claims are satisfied. After payment of the above, any funds remaining at the end of a fiscal year maintained by the Judicial Department shall revert to the general fund of the State at the end of that fiscal year.

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